Trump-Clinton Truce May Be Breaking After Democrats Join Recount Effort

The truce that existed between President-Elect Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may be cracking in the wake of Clinton’s team joining forces with Green Party candidate Jill Stein who is leading a recount effort in three states.

Reince Priebus, current Republican National Committee chairman and Trump’s appointment for White House chief of staff, told Fox News Sunday the Clinton camp “cut a deal” with Trump’s campaign that there would be an election night capitulation, which settled the matter until Stein began calling for a recount.

“It is a total and complete hypocritical joke that the group of people that thought that they were nervous about President-elect Trump not conceding are the people that are conducting recounts in states where we won by over 68,000 votes,” Priebus said.

Priebus derided the recount as a waste of “time and money,” noting that its goal is “only to divide this country when we need to come together … and look forward to the future of rebuilding this country and getting us back on track. That’s what President Trump is going to do, that’s what we want to do and this is a total and complete distraction and a fraud.”

Priebus echoed a tweet from Trump that called the recount effort a scam by Stein, who has been using her website to raise more than $5 million for the effort.

The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems

Kellyanne Conway, who was Trump’s campaign manager and now serves as an adviser to his transition team, said the actions of Clinton’s team in signing onto the recount Saturday run counter to Trump’s post-election efforts.

“I would say (Trump) has been incredibly gracious and magnanimous to Secretary Clinton at a time when for whatever reason her folks are saying they will join in a recount,” Conway said on CNN’s State of the Union.

“She congratulated him and conceded to him on election night. … The idea that we are going to drag this out now where the president-elect has been incredibly magnanimous to the Clintons and to the Obamas is incredible,” Conway said.

Although Conway did not link the two items, she noted that she could not rule out further investigations into Clinton over her use of a private email server while secretary of state.

Priebus addressed the same point, saying Trump will let the system decide what happens next.

“I would also tell you that if the attorney general and the Congress find evidence that would indicate that something needs to happen and our attorney general, Jeff Sessions, at the DOJ says something needs to happen, I would suspect that President-elect Trump is going to be open to listening to what that is, but ultimately it’s going to be the DOJ’s call,” he said.